The White House is once again playing the blame game, with Texas Governor Greg Abbott as its new target to blame for the rapid inflation and supply chain crisis.
During Wednesday’s press briefing, White House press secretary Jen Psaki has taken to blaming Abbott for the supply chain crisis issues.
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“Governor Abbott’s unnecessary and redundant inspections of trucks transiting ports of entry between Texas and Mexico are causing significant disruptions to the food and automobile supply chains, delaying manufacturing, impacting jobs, and raising prices for families in Texas and across the country,” said Psaki.
On April 6, Abbott ordered trucks coming in from Mexico to have extra inspections in hopes of clearing them from “cartels that smuggle illicit contraband and people across our southern border.”
“I hereby direct the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to conduct enhanced safety inspections of vehicles as they cross international ports of entry into Texas,” Abbott wrote in a letter to Colonel Steven C. McCraw of the Texas DPS. “These inspections should begin immediately to help ensure that Texans are not endangered by unsafe vehicles and their unsafe drivers.
Supply chain issues have been a problem for months and the Biden administration has repeatedly failed in handling the crisis.
Last month, President Joe Biden acknowledged the misery many Americans are suffering due to record-high inflation rates seen in February while saying that this is “the way the global economy works.”
“If a factory in Taiwan that makes computer chips shuts down due to a COVID outbreak, it causes a ripple effect to slow down auto manufacturing in Detroit — literally, not figuratively,” he said during the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference. “So, because of the pandemic, we had significant disruptions in the supply chain. And our supply chain is so important with so many materials that come from other places.”
Biden previously blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the inflation in the U.S., claiming that it is “largely” his fault.
“From the moment he put his over one hundred and fifty thousand troops on the Ukrainian border, the price of gasoline in January went up 75 cents and Putin began amassing troops along the border,” Biden said.
